In the presidential election of Peru held on 5 June this year, we can see how Peruvian people has resisted the seizure of power by a member of the Fujimori’s family, in this case his daughter: Keiko Fujimori. The victory has been minimal, 41.800 votes, but enough to make Pedro Pablo Kuczynski the new President of Peru over the next 5 years. However, the period that is ahead is not going to be simple; the Congress is dominated by the party of Keiko Fujimori, New Force, which has the absolute majority, which will create huge difficulties when it comes to governing.

Just a month ago, the favourite candidate to win the presidential elections was Fujimori, which swept in the polls. However, a series of scandals within her party and the success of Kuczynski to gather all the votes against Fujimori in his favour gave him the final victory.

The main fear of these elections was if Fujimori’s victory could bring again the dictatorship that Alberto Fujimori and Vladimiro Montesinos installed between 1990 and the year 2000, when Peru became the first narco-State of Latin America, reasons for which both meet prison condemns. In addition to the violence used as a mean to achieve this, Kuczynski has been able to make up an ideology and use it in his favour to win, as the now former President Ollanta Humala did in the last elections.

At the regional level, we can observe that it is one of the few Governments on the left who still survive on the Mainland, although this is a very particular case since he has won, not because it was the most convincing candidate, but because it has exploited the weakness of the Fujimori’s family: the dictatorship. The left-wing movements are losing bellows across the continent and many of those who still exist will not do it for a long time, so the challenge for the new President will be how to face the new political changes expected in the region in the coming months, especially the cases of Brazil and Venezuela, and if it would keep the economic growth that has been experiencing the country for more than 10 years.